Classical Teacher, Occasional Scribbler, Dragon Hunter
Joined August 2023
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One of the curious things about being a teacher is that you usually have no clue what kind of an impact you're having. Stack me up against a kid's parents, religion, social prospects, friends, and I will usually come in last. That's as it should be.
But it does keep you humble.
Always up for free books!
Two copies of The Coming of Arthur by @malcolmguite to give away, out Nov 9 from Rabbit Room
To enter: like, repost, and comment.
Winners Nov 2. US only.
Two more for Substack subscribers. Or preorder, if you’d rather not risk it. Links below.
I've only read a bit of Montaigne, but I'd always subconsciously assumed he was a late 18th-C writer.
Nope. Turns out the guy was a contemporary of John Calvin and Franciscus Junius.
Things you learn.
If you find an ancient or medieval author who just so happens to line up exactly with the 20th or 21st century viewpoint, what you’ve convinced me of is that you can’t read.
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Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
Always need more old books!
Reason #3 why I consider carrying an umbrella...
"Nam quid aliud est Eloquentia, nisi sapientia, quae ornate, copioseque, et ad sensum communem accommodate loquatur?"--Vico
As I launch into my seventh year of teaching it comes over me once again that my job is mostly really just pausing, picking something up, and saying:
"Can you see it?"
"Prodigal sons can make pigslop of Socrates or Shakespeare without much extra effort."
Nice @Verge_of_Jordan
nsa.edu/blog/noble-and-good-…
Well, life keeps happening. Some of it is even momentous, in a memento mori sort of way...
sonsofchristendom.blogspot.c…
Josh Daws continues to knock it out of the park.
Episode 4: Mary Sue Thinks the Villain Is Misunderstood
Produced by @capcutapp using Seedance 2.5
This is excellent. @PresidentNSA, you should take a look.
Watching this sort of thing is why social media is (occasionally) worthwhile.
My third interview with @Isaiah_p_Taylor, Founder of @ValarAtomics.
Valar just became the first startup in history to power an NVIDIA Blackwell with a nuclear reactor.
0:32 Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem
2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 10
4:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors
7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding
10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers
11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear
16:02 Becoming a nuclear company
18:57 It's important not to lie to yourself
21:55 Obsessing over critical path
24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple
30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed
30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate
35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari
38:07 Running through 1-way doors
41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat
46:13 Wartime mode
48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things
51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies
56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper
58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs
1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors
1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale
1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb
1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces
1:20:55 Inevitable time
1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks
1:28:08 Scaling
1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States
